Star Ferry Tea Bar

Obsessed with tea. The promise, the paraphernalia. Training my pleasure and reward centre to respond to a new kind of dried leaf. I punctuate my day with more elegant ceremony.

Photograph: Hong Kong Island Star Ferry Terminal 2002. I walked all over Kowloon island, printed through the night in the lab, and before dawn headed off down the gangway again to keep shooting. It was Hong Kong. I wouldn't dare sleep.